COMM 150 Lecture Notes - New Hollywood
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Let the audience identify with something and remain intact. Let them identify with something, then at the end show them how bad it is. Most of his early student films and post grad work were gritty realistic portrayals of street life. Made the gangster world look banal and ridiculous. Protagonist is torn between his catholic moral code and the code of the mafia. Tries to de-mythify the world of the gangster. Scorsese puts a lot of attention to the rituals of everyday life.
